One of the bellhousing bolts goes into the lifter valley. Could be it if you didnt put sealer on it.

 

One of the bellhousing bolts goes into the lifter valley. Could be it if you didn't put sealer on it.

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I didn't put sealer on it but do you think it would leak 3/4 a quart driving it less than 2 miles?

 

Did you forget the rear main seal? That's a lot of oil!

 

rear main seal in backwards. lip on seal must face toward front of block

 

Yeah its a lot of oil
I didn't install the seals so i am not sure, the person who did i am confident he put them in correctly.
I was hoping you guys would tell me how hard it is to get the j plugs in the back to seal the oil gallery holes but no one has said that yet

 

remove the tranny to install the plugs, pretty simple, if the plugs were out you would have 0-oil pressure on your 2 mile run and would be out of oil period!!!! sounds like a real seal problem to me. check your oil level and see how much total oil you lost. if just 3/4 quart its probly a rear seal if its all gone you may have a plug missing from the back of the block.

 

No one has had problems of the plugs leaking?

I have good oil pressure.

 

It would be a rare problem unless the boss was cracked when the plug was installed. IF the plugs are leaking due to a cracked boss, oil pressure might be acceptable but, i would think that if the plug(s) where loose you might have less than acceptable pressure.

Now, you might have a leaking rear seal or the rear of the intake is leaking/seeping into the bellhousing.

 

Someone didn't forget to put the cams plug in ?

 

Check the back of your intake manifold to make sure it's not leaking there. Mine did the same thing first thought was rear seal then I found my silicone bead at the back of the intake had a small gap. Always try the easy things first.

 

if you have good oil pressure then its ewither the back of the intake or the rear seal

 

many years ago i had machine work done on a block and the machine shop installed the galley plugs, after we assembled the engine and put it in the truck we primed it and had oil streaming down the back of the block, slid the trans back to get a better veiw of what was going on and one of the galley plugs was leaking oil, it looked like a normal pipe plug but it was deep in the hole pretty much bottomed out in the threads it was snug but it still seeped oil so i took it out and replaced it with a new plug that tightened up like a tapered pipe plug should, not sure what the oil pressure was doing because i never fired it, so it is possible for a galley plug to leak. but if this isnt a new engine then i would lean more towards the rear seal

 

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I had same problem.check for a.big puddle on back of intake on the block. It will puddle there as there is a spot on block that will hold oil.it's either leaking out of oil pressure brass fitting or rear corner of intake.mine was leaking out or intake where it is sealed with silicone. Happend to me at track

 

Its definitely leaking from the back of the block, there's no oil puddle near the back of the intake or out of the oil pressure area.

 

I caught my cousin installing the front galley plugs (specials) in the rear of his block. He said that he couldn't get them to tighten up even after screwing them in over 3/4 of an inch, so he put teflon tape on them. Had he tried to run it that way, he would have had a major oil leak! Might be worth checking out. HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wayne (SAWDOFF) Pearce

 

How do i know if they are for the front?